Category: Scripture
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Brief Book Review: From Page-to-Page Proclamation
MELINDA A. QUIVIK — Clare Schwantes validates preaching as a dialogue between scripture as the preacher hears it and context as the preacher interprets it.
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A Love that Gives Itself as Drink
NATHANIEL MARX — Pope Francis urges us to draw consolation for our wounded hearts from the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
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The Sunday of the Word of God
RITA FERRONE — In 2019, through his motu proprio Aperuit illas, Pope Francis established the Third Sunday in Ordinary Time as the Sunday of the Word of God.
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Summer Course in Trier: “Understanding the Bible from the Liturgy”
May 20 – June 14, 2024, exploring the rich relationships between Bible and liturgy.
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DDW confirms new Lectionary for Great Britain
The Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales has announced that “the Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments has confirmed the approval by the Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales for the new Lectionary.” Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Scotland will also share this new edition of the Lectionary for Mass. Their new…
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Writing our Lives in the Margins: Liturgical Texts & the Life of Faith
Thomas More took this book with him to the Tower of London
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February 2: On reaching “that light which never fails”
Deep in my heart, I believe that if God’s light were not stronger than all the depth of human iniquity that can surround people passing from this world to the next, it would not be worth blessing candles today.
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ESV Catholic Edition not Catholic enough?
In 2019 the Augustine Institute in Colorado published the English Standard Version Catholic Edition. This is a Catholic edition of the popular Evangelical Protestant translation that is owned by Crossway publishing house. This translation is closely related to the Revised Standard Version (RSV) of the Bible. But it is revised so that the new edition…
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Brief Book Review: The Promise of Not-Knowing
“This book reminds us of how a close reading of the original language with counsel from a creative biblical scholar can re-awaken understandings that offer even radical new insights into who God is and who we are and what it means to be a follower of Christ Jesus.”